Orlando Health Urges Hospitals to Utilize Analytics and Data Mining for Proactive RAC Preparedness

EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 26, 2009 — During an April 22 webinar hosted by MedeAnalytics, a leading healthcare performance analytics company, Orlando Health Vice President of Revenue Management Keith Eggert stressed the importance of analytics and data mining in managing the RAC audit process. Orlando Health, a client and solution development partner of MedeAnalytics, shared its experience with hospital peers during an hour-long telecast titled, “The RAC Offensive: Lessons Learned from Orlando Health.”

During the webinar, Eggert highlighted key lessons learned from the RAC demonstration project in Florida and listed the primary benefits of a proactive RAC analytics solution, including: having a RAC warehouse, data mining ability, proactive auditing, financial impact reporting and the ability to track and report on the RAC appeals process.

About Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a $1.5 billion not-for-profit health care organization and a community-based network of nine hospitals and care centers in the Orlando region. The organization, which includes the area’s only Level One Trauma Centers for adults and pediatrics, is a statutory teaching hospital system that offers both specialty and community hospitals. Orlando Health’s areas of clinical excellence are heart and vascular, cancer care, neurosciences, surgery, pediatric orthopedics and sports medicine, neonatology, and obstetrics and gynecology. Orlando Health serves 1.6 million Central Florida residents and nearly 3,000 international patients annually. Additionally, Orlando Health provides approximately $198 million in support of community health needs. More information can be found at www.orlandohealth.com.

About MedeAnalytics
Founded in 1994, MedeAnalytics enables healthcare organizations to improve clinical, financial and operational performance through on-demand analytics and client services. For hospitals and health systems, MedeAnalytics provides solutions to address revenue cycle, patient access, clinical operations, staff productivity, regulatory compliance, finance and accounting, and enterprise performance management. For healthcare payers, the company’s solutions address network management, medical management, pharmacy management, employer reporting and operations management. MedeAnalytics delivers business intelligence to over 700 healthcare organizations using a hosted, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, which reduces up-front costs and enables rapid implementation and exceptional time-to-value. For more information, visit www.medeanalytics.com.

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